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<font size=5><a href="indexingles.html" target=_top>A Journey
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<b><font size=5><b>The Beginnings:</b></font></b><font size=5><br>
<b><font size=4>When the colonizers came to the south
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<b>A</b>fter the first travels by <b>Columbus</b>, in <b>1492</b>, there were
new <b>expeditions</b>. One of them, led by <b>Amerigo Vespucci</b>, in <b>1502</b>,
was responsible for the Spaniards' first encounter with the lands which would
later become the <b>Argentine territory</b>. By that time, this area of the
south was inhabited by different groups of<b> indigenous peoples</b>, who were
mostly <b>nomadic</b>.<br>
<IMG WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=10 vspace=0 hspace=0 border=0 align=BASELINE src="../iconos/b88p.gif">A
short time afterwards, in <b>1516</b>, in a failed attempt to find a passage
connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, <b>Juan Díaz de Solís</b>
had to end his expedition near the banks of <b>Plata River</b>. It was in these
lands that Solís found his death by the Indians. <b>Sebastián
Gaboto</b>, his successor, arrived with a new expedition sent by the Spanish
King, Charles V.<br>
<IMG WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=10 vspace=0 hspace=0 border=0 align=BASELINE src="../iconos/b88p.gif">Gaboto
established <b>the first Spanish settlement</b>, <b>Fort Sancti Spiritu</b>,
in <b>1527</b>.<br>
<IMG WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=10 vspace=0 hspace=0 border=0 align=BASELINE src="../iconos/b88p.gif">In
<b>1534</b>, the conquest was left in the hands of <b>Pedro de Mendoza</b>,
thanks to an agreement signed with Charles V. Two years later, <b>Nuestra Señora
del Buen Ayre</b> was founded near the banks of Plata River.<br>
<IMG WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=10 vspace=0 hspace=0 border=0 align=BASELINE src="../iconos/b88p.gif">After
Mendoza's death in Spain and the dismantlement of Nuestra Señora del
Buen Ayre by the Indians, the <b>Spanish Capital</b> was moved in 1541 to <b>Asuncion</b>,
Paraguay.<br clear=all>
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